Advocacy

Independent Advocacy is not a ‘service’ offered by Social Work Services or Glasgow City Council. Instead, we work with our partners in Health Services to fund and support independent services. We work with these independent services to identify barriers and shortfalls in the services that we offer.

There are a dozen or so independent advocacy organisations working in Glasgow; some of these are funded by Glasgow City Council and Greater Glasgow NHS Board, either separately or in partnership. These organisations tend to specialise in helping people with particular needs, for example older people, children, those with disabilities or mental health problems.

The Scottish Executive has asked Health Boards in Scotland to support independent advocacy. The way that Greater Glasgow NHS Board does this in co-operation with Glasgow City Council and other councils is detailed in the ‘Advocacy Plan for Greater Glasgow’. This plan also lists the advocacy providers that we support.

A copy of the latest plan is available here: Advocacy Plan for Greater Glasgow. This document is provided in portable document format (pdf) for downloading. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be freely downloaded from the Adobe Web site

Information on advocacy providers in Glasgow and Scotland is also available .